The variationist sociolinguistics model assumes that the human language faculty accommodates and generates language variation, and that the workings of grammar may have a quantitative and non-categorical component. By means of the linguistic variable, one describes and analyzes orderly heterogeneity in language use. The linguistic variable as a structural unit depends on the model of syntax one...

Given its abundance of dialects, varieties, styles, and registers, Arabic lends itself easily to the study of language variation and change. It is spoken by some 300 million people in an area spanning roughly from northwest Africa to the Persian Gulf. Traditional Arabic dialectology has dealt predominantly with geographical variation. However, in recent years, more nuanced studies of interand i...

Aims: The goal of this special issue is to anchor an understanding language variation and change in a relatively newly adopted framework for researching ‘new speakers’ minoritized languages. Approach: This paper first reviews basic principles variationist sociolinguistics as they apply new-speaker contexts before critically engaging with the notion speakerhood. Conclusions: We frame our discuss...

In this article, I discuss the past, present, and future of interdisciplinary scholarship between sociolinguists and sociologists. After detailing some of the broader history of collaboration between sociolinguists and sociologists, I examine two sub-areas of scholarship: the variationist tradition from sociolinguistics and the social stratification tradition from sociology. I contend that, giv...

0. Introduction Semantic changes have been scientifically studied for more than 150 years (Ner-lich 1992). All along this history, successive generations of scholars have adopted at least three different theoretical frameworks (Magué 2005). Chronologically, the first trend focused on the identification of the different kinds of semantic changes a lexeme can undergo. This taxonomist trend culmin...

The proud kente cloth has knowledge and cultural heritage which ceremonial, symbolic authority about the wearer that is best known mostly widely recognized of all textiles in Africa. Its unique features are wide invokes powerful emotions as well symbolizes fundamental nonverbal codes ever imagined Ghana cuts across religion, ethnicity instill national pride. purpose study was to establish messa...

The current global status of the English language as a lingua franca has been running several discussions in realm Teaching Foreign Language (TEFL) (ANJOS, 2019; 2017; SIQUEIRA, 2020; DUBOC; 2020). Accordingly, many research works, mostly those Lingua Franca (ELF) (JENKINS, 2009; SCHMITZ, 2012), corroborate need for new orientations TEFL based on native-speaker standards. In this paper, we argu...